The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1887-07-21
DYING BY HUNDREDS.
Fearful Record of the Hottest of Day,

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PHILADELPHIA, July 7.-With the
single exception of July Sth, 1876, to-day
has been the hottest for over thirty years,
the heat being even greater than that of
yesterday. At five o'clock this afternoon
the thermometer registered 102 degrees
in the shade, being just one degree less
than that of July Sth, 1876, and one and
quarter degrees greater than yesterday.
Up to late hour tonight there have
been about thirty cases of sunstroke
reported, fourteen of which resulted
fatally. At II o'clock tonight the
thermometer stands 81 degrees.
Despite the sweltering heat DR.. Nc.
Glynn addressed a very large audience
in this city this evening under the aus.
pices of the Anti-Poverty Society, and
was enthusiastically received. In the
hall where he spoke the thermometer
registered as high as 1OS degrees.
SIX DEATHS REPORTED.
BALTIMORE, July 1.-THE intensely
warm weather continued to-day, the
thermometer at three p. m. registering SO
degrees. A rain storm of short duration
passed over the city about four o'clock,
after which a pleasant breeze from the
northwest afforded grateful relief to per-
ishing humanity.
Up to midnight six deaths from the
effects Of heat were reported, q number of
cases of suntroke were also reported, sew.
eral of which are likely to prove fatal.
FORTY CASES REPORTED.
CHICAGO, July 17.-Three deaths from
sunstroke occurred in Chicago between
noon and midnight to-day, making the
total for "a hours eight altogether.
Forty cases of insulation were reported.
Several are expected to result fatally.
Most of the victims were laborers, a
notable exception, however, being DR..
w. Fl. Dean, a we'll known physician,
who was found unconscious in his Office.
He died shortly after being conveyed to
the county hospital.
sIxTY.Two DEATHS.
The hot weather of Saturday was in
tensi6ed to-day, and there was much
suffering throughout the city. At 7
o'clock this morning the mercury had
reached 90 degrees and by II it was at
100. The maximum, 1O2, and the hot
test weather experienced in Chicago in
years, was reached by l o'clock, and the
temperature remained nearly stationary
until FIVE o'clock. At FIVE o'clock a
furious squall swept down upon the lake
bringing with it heavy rain which
lasted half an hour. From the time Of
the storm the temperature began falling
rapidly and at nine tonight had reached
seventy.nine degrees. Up to eleven
o'clock tonight the latest returns show
that sixty-two persons have died either
in or on the way to various hospitals in
the city since Saturday morning. These
deaths were all the direct result of sun.
stroke or heat. A number of patients in
the hospital are in a state of coma TO-
night and physicians consider their case
hopeless. At the county hospital the
physicians and nurses have been working
almost increasingly for thirty.six hours
Such degree of heat has not beer
experienced in Chicago in nearly thirty
years.
George Scott, a laborer, was bitter
and probably fatally injured last evening
by horse, which it is supposed had gone
mad through intense heat. The heat in
Gatesburg, ILL.,, has been terrific for the
past six days, averaging 100 in the shade
To-day it reached 1O4 and there were
four deaths from prostration. In Joliet
ILL.,, the thermometer registered 100 al
daybreak and 113 in the middle of the